AI could transform medicine—or magnify its flaws. Physicians must work with developers to ensure fair and ethical design.

Oregon blamed overdose deaths on decriminalization. Research shows that fentanyl may have been the culprit.

Supporting students. Supporting research.

The Hunger Habit: Why We Eat When We’re Not Hungry and How to Stop
By Judson Brewer, MD, PhD
Avery, 2024

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the news that pulse oximeters were consistently overestimating the blood oxygen levels of Black patients—and thus delaying their care—made headlines.

From the Dean: Brown unveils design for signature life sciences research facility.

A young scientific field tackles an old challenge.

Lack of public health funding and prenatal care access are exacerbating a congenital syphilis crisis.

Supporting students. Supporting research.

Annals of Family Medicine finds a new home at Brown.

Ask the Expert: Patrick McGann, MD, PhD

Cancer center director named to National Academy of Inventors.

VR plus brain stimulation reduces PTSD symptoms—even after the treatment ends.

The neurotoxic effects have important implications for the long-term brain health of all people exposed to biologically similar herbicides.

The nocebo effect can worsen symptoms and side effects, and even cause illness.

New research into how Candida albicans colonizes the human GI tract suggests ways to treat difficult infections.

Supporting students. Supporting research.

Ask the Expert: Philip Chan, MD, MS

Who will know what was?

Clinical trials need more participants from Black and brown communities. But has medicine earned their trust?

New tool speeds up diagnosis and treatment of dehydration.

Malaria-causing parasites resistant to both treatment and detection emerge in Ethiopia.

Their lives interrupted by war, two Ukrainian oncologists continue their work at Brown.

New institute convenes biomedical engineers and clinicians to create solutions to improve human health.